Lingerie drier



Feb. 20, 1934. TUTTLE; 1,948,014

LINGERIE DRIER Filed March 20, 1933 INVENTOR. 2 /arence/(, 7T/f/ e /ATTORNEYS.

Patented Feb. 20, 1934 LINGERIE DRIER Florence K. Tuttle, San Francisco,Calif. Application March 20, 1933. Serial No. 661,708

7 Claims.

. This invention relates to clothes-drying racks and has for itsprincipal object a small portable foldable rack especially adaptable fordrying lingerie, stockings, and other light articles of wearing apparelfrequently washed out in the hand basin and dried around the room.

Other objects and features of advantage will appear in the followingdescription and accompanying drawing.

In the drawing Fig. 1 is a side view of the rack in folded position.

' Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the rack with the drying armsoutfolded and broken in length to bring them within the drawing, as seenfrom the line 22 of Fig. 3. I

Fig. 3 is a reduced size bottom plan view of the rack with armsoutfolded and a cord stretched around at the ends of the arms. I

Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail of one of the arms.

Fig. 5 is an enlarged fragmentary section of Fig. 3 as seen from theline 55thereof showing the detents for holding the arms properly spaced.

Fig. 6 is an enlarged detail of the swivel joint of the suspension rodshown on optional variation. Fig. '7 is an elevation showing a hook uponwhich my improved rack may be suspended.

Fig. 8 is an elevation showing my rack hung on the upper edge of a door.

Briefly described, my improved rack consists of a horizontal hub member1 to which a lot of arms or rods 2 are vertically pivoted at one end asby rivets 3 passing through eyes formed on the rods. The rods may be ofany length, but about a foot long has been found convenient for ordinaryuse of a woman traveling or about a hotel. The hub 1 is made of severalsuperimposed sheet metal plates and is preferably of clover-leaf form asshown in Fig. 1 with the arms so pivoted about it that they will allfold to project substantially parallel toward one side as indicated.Therods are pivoted at different elevations between theplates so that alarge number may be used and yet they will all fold without interferenceand each rivet will pass through three rods. The hub plates arepreferably of thin steel suitably plated to resist rust, and they arepreferably indented as indicated at 4 so that the rods will snap intoplace for proper radial spacing when outfolded'to form a complete circleas shown in Fig. 3.

Extending vertically from the center of the hub is a suspension rod 5formed with a loop 6 on its upper end and a downwardly directed point 7so that the device may be suspended from the loop from any convenientsupport such as the chandelier of a room, shower bar of a bath room,

7 pin 14 to fold along the folded arms.

curtain fixture, or a specially provided wall hook as shown at 8 in Fig.7 and which is provided with a wall attaching plate 9 'and an arm 10extending outwardly far enough to suspend the rack free of the wall. Orif desired the point '7 of the suspension rod may be impinged on theupper edge of a door 11 to suspend the rack, but in such case some ofthe arms would have to be swung forward on account of the doorinterference, as to obtain'the.

full capacity of the rack it must hang clear in the room. i

The suspension rod is swivelly connected to the hub so that the rackarms may be rotated about it to take off or put on the items for drying,and to this end it has a tight washer at 12 above the hub and a washer13 below and is headed over against the lower washer yet without bindingthe same against the hub. Just above the hub'the rod is forked as at 14and horizontally fpivote'd as at 14' so that it may be swung downwardlyon The pivotal joint of the suspension rod thus provided-would permitthe device to tip if heavily loaded on one side only, and to avoid thisI lock the pivotal joint of the suspension rod by means of a loosecollar 15 which drops down over both aligned ends of the rod and holdsthem rigid.

Suspension rod 5 is made more serviceable by flattening out for adistance as at 16 which acts as a stop against too great movement ofcollar 15 while at the same time providing a fine place for impressingthe name of its maker, owner, patent number, or other data.

In place of forking the ends of the suspension rod for the folding jointas explained they may be simply cut to the center as shown in Fig. 6 andwhich is perhaps a trifle stronger.

A feature of my improved rack not thus far explained is the bifurcatedouter ends 17 of the rods which permits of a string 18 being passedaround all of the arms and tied to thus provide 1 nine short runs ofline from which articles may be suspended for drying.

It might be mentioned that the loop end 6 of the suspension rod isadapted for hooking over a door knob for suspending the rack for dryingshort articles, but this will necessitate swinging some of the armsformed to clear the door.

Having thus described my invention it will be seen to be adaptable toall the varying requirements of a traveler or hotel and apartment housedweller, and will even be found very useful about a well equipped homein saving the effort of going to the laundry with every little thing tobe washed and dried, and while I am aware of many forms of towel rackswith swinging arms, I do not know of any having the general utility ofthe improved rack shown in the drawing and described herein, and Itherefore claim:-

1. A foldable drying rack comprising a hub, a plurality of arms pivotedthereto and arranged to outfold from a position all at one side of thehub to radial positions therearound, a suspension rod at one side of thehub extending substantially at right angles to the plane of theoutfolded arms, means adapting said rod to fold down substantially tothe plane of the arms, and means looking said rod rigid when outfolded.

2. A foldable drying rack comprising a hub, a plurality of arms pivotedthereto and arranged to outfold from a position all at one side of thehub to radial positions therearound, a suspension rod at one side of thehub extending substantially at right angles to the plane of theoutfolded arms, a pivot joint adapting said rod to fold downsubstantially to the plane of the arms, and a slidable collar on saidrod locking said rod rigid when outfolded.

3. A foldable drying rack comprising a hub, a plurality of arms pivotedthereto and arranged tooutfold' from a position all at one side of thehub to radial positions therearound, and a suspension rod at one side ofthe hub extending substantially at right angles to the plane of the outfolded arms, said hub comprising a plurality of thin metal platesbetween which the arms are pivoted one above the other and the arms eachbeing adapted to swing on its pivot independently of the arm above orbelow it.

4. A- clothes drying rack comprising a hub provided with a plurality ofradially projecting arms pivoted at one end thereto so as to fold in abunch to one side, and a suspension rod on said hub swivelly securedthereto to permit revolving of therack, said rod provided with a loopfor suspending it from above, said hub comprising a plurality of thinmetal plates between which the arms are pivoted, and the plates formedwith detents to space the arms about the hub in outfolded position andto releasably secure each of the arms against movement about its pivotin either direction, said detents being relatively shallow to permitmovement therepast upon application of a slight lateral pressure on eachof said arms.

5, A foldable drying rack comprising a hub, a plurality of arms pivotedthereto and arranged to outfcld from a position all at one side of thehub to radial positions in a horizontal plane therearound, a suspensionrod at one side of the hub extending upwardly substantially at rightangles to the plane of the outfolded arms, a pivot joint adapting saidrod to fold down substantially to the plane of the arms, and a slidablecollar on said rod locking said rod rigid when outfolded, and meansproviding a stop for said collar when it is in locking position.

6. A foldable drying rack comprising a hub, a plurality of arms pivotedto said hub around the central axis thereof at points substantiallyequal- 1y spaced from each other and from the central axis of said hub,said arms arranged and adapted to outfold from a position all at oneside of the hub with their outer ends together to radial positionstherearound and a suspension rod at one side of the hub extendingsubstantially at right angles to the plane of the outfolded arms.

'7. A clothes drying rack comprising a flat hub generally triangular inshape with a plurality of arms pivoted to the hub at three pointssubstantially equally spaced from each other and from the central axisof said hub, a suspension rod extending from said hub co-axial with thecentral axis thereof, said arms arranged and adapted to outfold from aposition all at one side of the hub with their outer ends together tospaced positions at one side of the hub or to radial positionstherearound as desired, one of the sides of said hub being adapted toengage against the side of a wall to prevent the hub from turning whensaid hub is suspended adjacent a wall and the arms are disposed inspaced relation at one side of said hub.

FLORENCE K. TUTTLE.

